[GRLUG] Good local source for UPSs

[Thad Ward]

Not necessarily. I had a UPS stop working and just shriek at me until I replaced the
batteries. Annoyingly, even through it was doing regular self tests, it never seemed
to sound the "change batteries soon" alarm (and I didn't have the monitoring cable
connected). One day it went to do a test and just shut down and started screaming.

I also have a smaller UPS of the same design as yours, and it would not power on
when the batteries were dead. Not a nice thing to discover when you're 850 miles
from home, tight on time, and didn't have a need for battery replacement budgeted.



----- Original Message -----
> From: Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com>
> To: "Mailing List for LUG in greater Grand Rapids, MI area." <grlug at grlug.org>
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> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 10:20 AM
> Subject: Re: [GRLUG] Good local source for UPSs
> 
> I'm fairly certain it's not the batteries; if it were, I'd still be
> able to power on the UPS. It's more likely the input voltage regulator
> or switching control.
> 
> I'll bring it in and you can play with it.
> 
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Casey DuBois <casey at grlug.org> wrote:
>>  Batteries plus has always done a good job.
>> 
>>  On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Joseph McLaughlin 
> <jwm8351 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>  Open it up and measure the voltage at the batteries.
>>>  Or if the batteries are bulging.
>>> 
>>>  Then replace the batteries.
>>> 
>>>  There is still a bug in the program must use RAID!
>>>  ________________________________
>>>  From: Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com>
>>>  To: "GRLUG, List" <grlug at grlug.org>
>>>  Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 9:54 AM
>>>  Subject: [GRLUG] Good local source for UPSs
>>> 
>>>  So I had a 1500VA Tripp-Lite UPS die on me this morning. I suspect I
>>>  overloaded it; it powered two PCs and an LCD monitor. Resetting the
>>>  breaker didn't help, and the temperature in that room has been in 
> the
>>>  mid 90s much of the time over the last few weeks. (Good airflow only
>>>  goes so far when the air you have to exchange with is hot...)
>>> 
>>>  So I need to find a new UPS. Something that'd sit comfortably on or
>>>  under a table, and probably a hair more powerful than 1500VA.
>>> 
>>>  Does anyone have any recommended local sources? I've got a family
>>>  member I could conceivably go  to, but I haven't approached him for
>>>  this kind of thing before, so I wanted to see what other options there
>>>  were, first.
>>> 
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